While it’s true that the Germans were famously unprepared for their invasion plan — Operation Barbarossa — to stretch into the winter, it’s also clear that Soviet troops were more prepared to ...

Camouflage in World War 2 was the first time camouflage was used en masse by all sides. Each side had a different approach to ...

Last but not least, the word Hummel is German for, you guessed it, "bumblebee" which is the nickname this vehicle was bestowed with. However, by all accounts, Hitler hated that name because he ...

Today, it’s impossible to think of the American military without its customary camouflage uniforms. This tradition hearkens ...

COLOGNE, Germany — Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused Wednesday in Cologne after the German city’s biggest evacuation since the end of the war. More than 20,000 ...

It raged for four days and was the turning point for the United States in the World War II Pacific campaign against Japan. In 1944, the last of German occupiers fled Rome ahead of the advancing U ...

Major Howard's men had been pinned down by German sniper fire so the reinforcements arrived in the nick of time. Trooper Cadman, of 3 Commando, 1st Special Service Brigade, later recalled ...

“Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band. Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the ...

The German submarines – the "U-boat peril" as Churchill had called them - had been the Allies' principal threat at sea during the Battle of the Atlantic, a campaign that raged throughout the war.

One of the three unexploded bombs from World War II is fenced off with screens as specialists prepare to defuse them in Cologne, on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (Thomas Banneyer/dpa via AP) (AP ...